Cheese cutter



A ril 6, 1926. 9 1,579,966

D. A. STRACHAN ET AL CHEESE CUTTER Filed March 20 INVENTORS I .Z Av/0ALEXANDER SrRAcHAN HARoL ROGER Scarr 45 ATTORNEYS To all rwltom it mayconcern:

Patented Apr. 6, 1926.

DAVID ALEXANDERSTRWHANAND LD' ROGERSGOM; OF VANCGU ERi BRITISH e 3 A-N;nn. 1

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Application fil ed March-'3' 20, 1925. seri no 17,053,

A MND STRACHAN and HARoLD ROGER s@m,.- 'qa1; subjects of the King of.Great Britain, and both residents ofLthe-ci-ty of Vancouver, in theProvince of British Columbia, Canada, have invented certain new andusefulflnr- .provements in Cheese Gutters, of which the following is aspecification 1 Our invention relates to improvements in cheese cuttersthe objects of. which are. to provide means whereby poryi'ons ofcheeseof rectangular form may. be ..aocurately Be it known that we, DAVIDgauged as to weight-bi price and cut f:1;o1n

the whole.- Afurther object is to provide means whereby the slide uponwhich the cheese is set may be conveniently drawnin a rearward directionif requi,red. Q

The invention consists essentially .of a base upon whicha cheesebearingslideis ad justably movable innone direction by a lever and a pivotallyhung knife which: is adapted to cut through the cheese and to cover thecut surface thereof to prevent its exposure pending subsequent cutting,as will be more fully described in the following specification in whichFig. 1 is a plan partly in section, of the invention.

Fig, 2 is a longitudinal section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fractional sectional view showing the slide movingspring pawl.

In the drawings like characters of reference indicate correspondingparts in each figure.

The numeral 1 indicates generally the base surrounded by a supportingrim 2 and having a pair of parallel guides 3 which are transverselyslotted as at 4, see Figure 2, to permit the knife to come into closecontact with the slide and to completely sever the block of cheese,

prises ta of material I detachably secured to base by a pair of thumbnuts 13- and is graduated to two readings. 14 and. 15,.

the: reading, llf'indicating pounds. and. 'frac tions thereof, and the.reading 15 indicating the price of such" poundage. at a givencost.

So-that the cheese is to be sold at 40. centsv per pound, a scale:having. a pricebase of cents would be. used,.b.ut..if a higher. priced.

cheese is. to beso'lda scale having. a correspondingly increased price"base would: be. substituted.

The numeral 16- indicates a slide: operating idsuitable grooves formeda" the bases-of the guideSgBJia-ving a follower strip 17wat ;its .rearedge WhichI is. adaptedl to engage the. rear endof the blockloflcheeseplaced upon theslide, to hold it inposition thereon. Arack18- issecured'ltov the underside of the slide; which is normally engaged byafspring pawll19 secured to thebasefor the purpose of preventing thelearward movement ofthe slide 16'.

The numeral 20 indicates av slidably mounted bar supported from theunderside of the base 1 which is operatively connected to the lever 10by a link 21 and isprovided with a spring pawl 22 which is adapted toengage the rack 18 to move it in a forward direction when a similarmovement is imparted to the lever 10 and to slip along the rack as thelever is returned. It will be noted that when the lever 10 is in itsmost rearward or zero position, as shown, that the pawl 19 is overlyingthe pawl 22 so that by turning the cranked rod 23 by means of the triplever 24 both pawls are depressed and disengaged from the rack 18 topermit the slide 16 to be returned to starting position.

Having thus described the several parts of our invention we willnowbriefly explain its operation. 2

The slide being withdrawn to starting position, or to the left of thebase 1, a cheese is placed thereon and pressed firmly against thefollower strip;- 17, the slide is then pushed forward until the cheeseis in direct contact with the knife 7 and the lever 10 swung to the leftor zero position. \Vhen a desired amount of cheese is to be cut, thelevered handle 6 is raised until the knife 7 is clear of the cheese andthe lever 10 is moved to the right, bringing the pointer 11 to thedesired poundage indicated on the scale 12, this movement of the lever10 moves the slide until that poundage of cheese projects to the rightbeyond the knife, when the levered handle 6 is pulled down to severitfrom the cheese, the lever lO is then Withdrawn to the zero positionready for subsequent operation, the slide being held against return bythe engagement of its rack 18 by the spring pawl 19.

hat we claim as our inveution'is:

1. In a device of the character described comprising a support, slidemovable thereon, means for moving the slide in one direction and a rackcarried by the slide, the combination, ofa pawl resiliently engagingsaid rack to prevent reverse movement of the slide, and arotatably-mounted pawl releasing shaft including a, crank portionpositioned to overlie the pawl and serving to move thep'awl out ofengagement with the rack on rotation of the shaft to apredeterminedposition.

2. A device as recited in claimlin which the aforesaid means for movingthe slide in one direction includes a drive pawl engaging the rack andso positioned as to-be" moved out of engagement. with said rack by theoperation of the pawl releasing shaft to the aforesaid predeterminedposition.

3. Ina device of the character described comprising a slide and asupport therefor, the combination of a bar extending longitudinally ofthe slide and slidably supported therebeneath, a lever extendingtransversely beneath the slide and pivoted at one end to said support, aconnection between the lever and said bar and meanscarried bythe bareudengaging the slide to move the latter upon actuation of the lever in onedirection and means for holding the slide stationary during reversemovement of the lever.

4-; In-adevice of the character described comprising a slide, a supporttherefor and a racksecured to the bottom of the slide and extendinglongitudinally thereof, the combination ofa bar slidably supportedbeneath the slide and movable longitudinally there of, an inherentlyresilient spring strip carried bythe bar and constituting a pawlresiliently engaging said rack, means for reciprocating said bar andmeans operable to disengage the pawl from the rack.

5. A device according to claim 41- including a stationary pawl carriedby the supporting structure to prevent movement of the slide duringmovement of the first mentioned pawl in one direction,-said secondmentioned pawl being positioned to be released prior to the releasementof the first mentioned pawl and through the agency of the same releasingmeans.

Dated at Vancouver, B. C., March, 1925.

DAVID ALEXANDER STRACHAN. HAROLD ROGER soon.

